to commute
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- verb
- /kəˈmjuːt/
- Specialized
:
conmutar
- When working with matrices, you can switch their order if they commute, meaning their product remains the same.
Examples
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In group-theoretic terminology, the theory is called abelian because simple phase shifts commute with one another.
Academic text (2004) -
And why does it commute with all of them?
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But South and T commute, so this is TSU.
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And if it commutes, then we are set.
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And it also means that little Y commutes with little G.
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The reason histories are more complicated is that they involve measurements of quantities at different times, which don't commute with each other.
Blog text (29) -
In mathematics, two functions f and g are said to commute if the result of f(g(x)) is equal to g(f(x)) for any input x.
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To demonstrate this property, you can show that addition and multiplication of real numbers commute with each other.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Commute also keeps the sense of 'change places' from the Latin commutare, so in mathematics two things 'commute' when you can swap their order and the result does not change. This shows the root meaning directly in the modern use.